The Violet Fairy Book, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish, sentence 26
The monkey shrank back horrified at these words and asked the jelly-fish what crime he had committed that deserved death.
Who acts: turtle, that · What happens: horrify, ask, have, deserve · To what, where: monkey, words, crime, jelly fish, death
This is a sentence of «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Monkey and the Jelly-fish. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (turtle, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 monkey | det |
| 2 | monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 horrified | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | shrank | shrink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | aux |
| 4 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 horrified | advmod |
| 5 | horrified | horrify | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 words | case |
| 7 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 8 words | det |
| 8 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 horrified | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 asked | cc |
| 10 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 horrified | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fish | det |
| 12 | jelly | jelly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fish | compound |
| 13 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 jelly | punct |
| 14 | fish | fish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 15 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 16 crime | det |
| 16 | crime | crime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 asked | obj |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 had | nsubj |
| 18 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 asked | parataxis |
| 19 | committed | committed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 had | xcomp |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 deserved | nsubj |
| 21 | deserved | deserve | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 committed | ccomp |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 deserved | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 horrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | horrify | past · passive | the monkey | this words | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | what crime | the jelly fish | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have | past | turtle | committed property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | deserve | past | that | death | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Violet Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 641 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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